Train services have been disrupted in the North-South axis of the country due to erosion caused by downpour in some parts of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. According to Mr Rasheed Gbadamosi, the District Manager, South West Zone of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), the corporation has suffered colossal losses in revenue as rail tracks have been damaged. “The most catastrophic is the Unity Road junction. Although there are pockets of minor ones, but the major one is that of Unity junction,” he said. Gbadamosi, who accused the state government of not providing the right drainage system, however, assured the…
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Pastor Taiwo Odukoya of of the Fountain of Life Church (TFOLC) has claimed that there was nothing bad in men of God owning private jets as it guarantees their safety. According to Odukoya, his wife, Pastor Bimbo Odukoya, who died in a Sosoliso plane crash in 2005 could still be alive if she had a private jet. “It’s been years, what is the outcome of the investigations into the Sosoliso air crash?” he queried. Reacting to the incident of the arms deals in which about $9.3 million was seized by the South African Government from the leased private jet of…
Heavily armed anti-riot policemen Tuesday blocked all the roads leading to Presidential villa in Abuja, yesterday, disrupting the march by the Bring Back Our Girls Group, who were told that the President was busy and therefore could not attend to them and that the government was working hard to rescue the girls. “He cannot come out, he has meetings and since already you are out that’s why we are asked to come here and meet with you and to apologise for his inability to be here personally. But you can see we are all members of the Federal Executive Council”…
Senator David Mark has called on the international community to support Nigeria to end the menace of Boko Haram in the country. The Senate President solicited the support, while addressing the 131st session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference going on in Geneva, Switzerland. According to him, Boko Haram and other terrorists groups are capable of wiping out nations if urgent efforts are not taken to contain them. Mark said Nigeria had taken measures necessary to end the activities of Boko Haram despite the violence the sect is continually unleashing on the country. He however asked for the support of…
The beef between Samklef and Wizkid seems to be getting hotter day by day. Samklef is obviously not ready to drop the whole issue as he has reacted once again to his recent beef with pop star Wizkid. In a series of new tweets today, Samklef still insists Wizkid is ungrateful and has offered all Wizkid’s instrumentals in his possession for sale. In one of the tweets, Samklef claims that he got paid just a paltry N250,000 for his production of 6 tracks in Wizkid’s debut album Superstar which was released in 2011. Placed side by side with the impact of…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied reports that he has endorsed an aspirant jostling for the office of the president in the February 2015 election. Speaking through one of his associates, Chief Oyewole Fasawe, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Monday, the ex-president said he had neither endorsed nor undermined the chances of any of the aspirants running on the platform of any of the political parties. He was reacting to media speculations that he specifically warned a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who paid him a visit in his Abeokuta residence last…
The Majority leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Mulikat Akande-Adeola, on Monday, boasted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would recover all the South-West states from the All Progressive Congress (APC) in a free and fair election in 2015. The majority leader, who represents, the Oyo, Ogbomosho North, South/Orire Federal Constituency, told journalists yesterday at the national secretariat of the PDP in Abuja shortly after she picked her expression of interest and nomination forms for another term in the House of Representatives that the party was already set to redress the electoral setbacks it suffered in the last general election in…
Contrary to unconfirmed reports in a section of the media that he may have suspended his presidential ambition to work for the emergence of former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) as the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Senator Bukola Saraki has denied endorsing any of the aspirants. Senator Saraki’s clarification came on the heels of a newspaper report, which specifically touted him as the possible director-general of Buhari’s 2015 campaign office. But Saraki, through his campaign office on Monday, has denied the report. A statement from the office said: “Our office will like to clear the air…
In furtherance of the #BringBackOurGirls advocacy group’s Global Week of Action to mark 180 days of the 219 Chibok schoolgirls’ abduction, the group will today march on the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to express the urgency of the abducted girls’ rescue. The group in a press statement yesterday, said it has requested for an appointment with President Goodluck Jonathan, adding that it wants to hear directly from him the latest effort to rescue the girls who have being held for six months by Boko Haram insurgents. “The objective of our march to the Villa is to convey the urgency of the…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Monday followed up on his public declaration for the presidency as he picked the N27million presidential and expression of interest form to contest the presidential primaries on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) but asked for level playing ground for all aspirants. Atiku will square up against a formidable aspirant and former head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) for the APC presidential ticket. Other interested aspirants for the ticket include Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State; founder of Leadership Group, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah; and a University lecturer, Prof. Mahmood Aliyu. The…
The Acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, on Monday reconstituted the Force Gender Unit, FGU, to help effectively address cases of violence against women and children in the country. The Unit, according to the acting IGP, is to be headed by a Force Gender Adviser in the person of CSP Olabisi Kolawale. The newly reconstituted police gender is charged with the responsibility of implementing a robust capacity building plan for officers in gender related issues. The FGU is also expected to ensure the inclusion of gender training in Nigeria Police curriculum at all levels and see to the establishment…
President Goodluck Jonathan has extended his condolences to a former Governor of Bayelsa state, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, over the death of his son in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate. In a statement by his special adviser on media and publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, Mr. Jonathan said the Federal Government would assist the Alamieyeseigha family in getting to the root of their son’s death. There are conflicting reports of how Alamieyeseigha’s son, Oyamuyefa, died. While some reports say he was found murdered on the streets, others claim that he committed suicide in an elevator. Mr. Alamieyeseigha, while confirming his son’s death, however,…
The authorities of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, on Monday warned students of the institution to abide by the rules and regulations guiding the entire community or face sanctions. The Assistant Registrar, Information, King Robert Emukpoeruo, gave the warning in an interview in Lagos. He said the warning became imperative following the fire which engulfed Room 8012 of the Madam Tinubu female hall of residence in the institution on Sunday. Mr. Emukpoeruo said that the incident was largely due to negligence on the part of students who attempted to use appliances that were not allowed in the rooms. “Unilag has…
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has debunked claims that his media organisation chose Abeokuta as venue for an upcoming policy review summit to get President Olusegun Obasanjo to endorse him for the 2015 presidential election. Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu had recently visited Obasanjo in Abeokuta to ask for his opinion on a choice of candidate for the party in the coming presidential election. Atiku’s decision to hold the policy review at the Obasanjo Presidential Library is therefore suspected as a plot by Atiku, to get the attention of the former president. “Abeokuta is a more…
The political rivalry between the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State took a new dimension on Sunday when the minister declared that Amaechi’s administration was a failed one. Wike, who made this declaration yesterday at his Port Harcourt residence while receiving elders, women and youths from Rumueme Kingdom, Obio/Akpor Local Government, described the ongoing Rivers monorail project as a death trap. He said, “There is one death trap they call monorail. Yes, we know that one day, we must die, but with the monorail I am seeing there, I will not…
Dangote Industries Zambia, a subsidiary of Dangote Group has dragged Zambian Labour minister, Fackson Shamenda before a High Court in the country, for defamation. The minister had claimed that a senior company official had attempted bribing him, according to documents before the court. Describing the claim as false, the company wants to be paid an unspecified sum as damages for slander and libel, and also special damages in the sum of 112,042.84 kwacha ($17,728), court documents further reveal. Shamenda had claimed in a September 15 story published by the Post Newspaper, that a Nigerian human resources manager from the company…
Cameroon will continue the fight against Boko Haram until the Islamist sect is totally wiped out, President Paul Biya has vowed. “The Cameroonian government assures you that it will ceaselessly continue to fight Boko Haram until it’s totally wiped out,” said Biya on Monday after 27 Cameroonians and Chinese abducted by the terrorists had been delivered to authorities on Friday night. Although the government did not make public how the abducted people regained their freedom, but reports citing security sources say ransom was paid and some terrorists in custody were also freed in exchange. Boko Haram has been unleashing terror…
After hearing about this rumor, I decided to do a little digging in to find out how the stories started and I did. The rumors reporting that AC Milan midfielder and Ghanaian football star, Michael Essien, has contracted the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease surfaced yesterday, the African football circle was thrown into a frenzy, with many praying that the story turns out as false. It was not long before it became clear that it was nothing more than rumors which allegedly must have been ignited by someone out to cause mischief. I bring you the man who set the rumor mill aglow…
The director of press and publicity to impeached Governor Murtala Nyako, Mallam Ahmad Sajoh, has alleged that the latest threat issued to him by the Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, followed the role he played in the suit filed by Governor Bala James Ngillari, which led to the sacking of Fintiri from office last week. Sajoh pointed out that the role he played was a patriotic sacrifice to get the illegality foisted by the House of Assembly reversed, adding that he will never be intimidated by threats from the speaker or anyone for that matter…
Barring any last minute changes, Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso will on October 23 in Abuja, publicly declare his presidential ambition, an indication that attempts to make him withdraw from the race for another leading aspirant, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), were unsuccessful. The governor, according to party sources, wants the former head of state to endorse him because he has age on his side and due to their perceived closeness but those who are loyal to Buhari are asking Kwankwaso to respect the age and the experience of the three-time presidential candidate and withdraw from the race. Speaking to some journalists…